Inner City Press





In Other Media-eg New Statesman, AJE, FP, Georgia, NYTAzerbaijan, CSM Click here to contact us     .



These reports are usually available through Google News and on Lexis-Nexis
,



Share |   

Follow on TWITTER

Home -

These reports are usually available through Google News and on Lexis-Nexis

CONTRIBUTE

Books

RSS

(FP Twitterati 100, 2013)

ICP on YouTube

More: InnerCityPro

BloggingHeads.tv
Sept 24, 2013

UN: Sri Lanka

VoA: NYCLU

FOIA Finds  

Google, Asked at UN About Censorship, Moved to Censor the Questioner, Sources Say, Blaming UN - Update - Editorial

Support this work by buying this book
Belt and Roadkill
(and paperback)

Click on cover for secure site orders

also includes "Toxic Credit in the Global Inner City"
 

 

 


Community
Reinvestment

Bank Beat

Freedom of Information
 

How to Contact Us



Bronx CEO of Homeless Group Gets 27 Months After Stealing $1 Million Now Runs Food Truck

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC-Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN NY Mag

SDNY COURTHOUSE, May 23 –  Victor Rivera was charged with stealing $1 million from the Bronx Parents Housing Network and pleaded guilty.          

        On May 23, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York  Judge Sidney H. Stein held his sentencing. Inner City Press attended and live tweeted it here:

OK- at sentencing for bribery of Victor Rivera of Bronx Parent Housing Network. Out in hall a woman is crying and kneeling in prayer.

 In courtroom, sexual harassment is raised. Rivera's lawyer says he cooperated. AUSA says he lied, repeatedly. Rivera is now running a food truck. Judge Stein: You didn't have to steal. You made over $450,000 a year. Rivera: I made only $70,000 a year before that.

 Rivera: My consulting company was legal. Judge Stein: It was run by your son. It took kickbacks. Rivera: That was only for 2 years. Judge: You pled to 2013 to 2020. Rivera: I say only since 2018. [So much for acceptance of responsibility]

 Rivera: I only own one car. I give away my unused food truck food in Hunts Point. I am no longer in the jewelry business. I have been with Jesus Christ for 27 years. I am asking for mercy. Judge Stein: You stuffed your pockets with money & undermined public trust

Judge Stein: I sentence you, Victor Rivera, to 27 months in prison.

Previously: RIVERA was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Organization-1, which annually spent millions of dollars in public funds on real estate, security, cleaning, construction, and food expenses, among other costs related to the housing and social services Organization-1 provided. From at least in or about 2013 until in or about 2020, RIVERA engaged in a scheme to enrich himself and his relatives by soliciting and accepting bribes and kickbacks from contractors doing work related to or for Organization-1. The scheme yielded RIVERA at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in illicit gains. RIVERA laundered some of the corrupt payments through intermediary entities he controlled, including through a purported consulting company nominally owned by one of RIVERA’s relatives.  

The case is US v. Rivera, 21-cr-221 (Stein)\

***

@SDNYLIVE courthouse #CourtCastCast
                              200 Worth Street
Your support means a lot. As little as $5 a month helps keep us going and grants you access to exclusive bonus material on our Patreon page. Click here to become a patron.

Feedback: Editorial [at] innercitypress.com
SDNY Press Room 480, front cubicle
500 Pearl Street, NY NY 10007 USA

Mail: Box 20047, Dag Hammarskjold Station NY NY 10017

Reporter's mobile (and weekends): 718-716-3540



Other, earlier Inner City Press are listed here, and some are available in the ProQuest service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.

 Copyright 2006-2022 Inner City Press, Inc. To request reprint or other permission, e-contact Editorial [at] innercitypress.com